kylemittskus

cortot20 wrote:Thoughts? I had the robert hall rose de robles which is the same price from TJ's and thought it wasn't great. Maybe im just spoiled.

Going back for 3+ more. Drinks at twice its price. French-style (duh! it is French). Completely dry, could use a bit more acid but nice, a hint of tannin at the end. Watermelon jolly rancher, strawberry, and almost a vegetal/methol thing. Easy buy for $6, IMO.

"If drinking is bitter, change yourself to wine." -Rainer Maria Rilke

"Champagne is a very kind and friendly thing on a rainy night." -Isak Dinesen

neilfindswine

jmdavidson wrote:We open a bottle every night. We're just trying to support the wine industry and seem to be succeeding.

...the wine industry is most appreciative... at least in my office. Sadly, my better half doesn't partake, so I sometimes struggle with opening a bottle on a early weeknight. And I'm trying to slim down with swimsuit weather around the corner. Apparently wine contains 'empty calories'.

rjquillin

neilfindswine wrote:...the wine industry is most appreciative... at least in my office. Sadly, my better half doesn't partake, so I sometimes struggle with opening a bottle on a early weeknight. And I'm trying to slim down with swimsuit weather around the corner. Apparently wine contains 'empty calories'.

cortot20

kylemittskus wrote:Going back for 3+ more. Drinks at twice its price. French-style (duh! it is French). Completely dry, could use a bit more acid but nice, a hint of tannin at the end. Watermelon jolly rancher, strawberry, and almost a vegetal/methol thing. Easy buy for $6, IMO.

I'll have to check it out. I saw it in the store a week or two ago and I was wary at that price point.

ddeuddeg

Scott sure does great things with mountain fruit. Sadly, that association is likely about to end, as I understand the property is for sale. If I could afford the reputed $7M price tag, I'd but it and turn over every aspect of the winemaking to him.

Always keep a bottle of Champagne in the fridge for special occasions. Sometimes the special occasion is that you've got a bottle of Champagne in the fridge. - Hester Browne
Filmmaker/winemaker Francis Ford Coppola says his two professions are almost the same and that each depends on source material and takes a lot of time to perfect.
The big difference: "Today's winemakers still worry about quality."

chemvictim

I used to love the Gewurtz but lately I'm finding it too sweet. I don't know if the wine changed or I did.

My grocery store adventures lately have given me some decent $5 wines - I liked the Gnarly Head merlot and Mondavi cab, but then I'm not a big cab drinker so I'm not evaluating it by any sort of cabernet standard. What I'm looking for is an inoffensive table wine for every day, and it's working out okay.

I'm still happy about the $3.50 Chandon sparklers I got the other day. Not my favorite California sparklers but again, not offensive.

kylemittskus

neilfindswine wrote:Nice wine (admittedly, I'm a fan of their wines and a friend of the proprietors and winemakers). Young, vibrant wine. Lots of fruit, good acidity and like all of their wines, nice texture/mouthfeel.

Again, a young one, but it was a nice, 'drink now' pinot. Some of their other offerings- Gaps Crown Vineyard, Sangiacomo and Rogers Creek are the more age-able ones, IMHO.

Time to start pushing those friendships... get 'em on wine.woot!!!

"If drinking is bitter, change yourself to wine." -Rainer Maria Rilke

"Champagne is a very kind and friendly thing on a rainy night." -Isak Dinesen

redwinefan

neilfindswine wrote:Nice wine (admittedly, I'm a fan of their wines and a friend of the proprietors and winemakers). Young, vibrant wine. Lots of fruit, good acidity and like all of their wines, nice texture/mouthfeel.

Again, a young one, but it was a nice, 'drink now' pinot. Some of their other offerings- Gaps Crown Vineyard, Sangiacomo and Rogers Creek are the more age-able ones, IMHO.

Sojourn is great juice. Can't wait to crack into the bottles I got from them during Beserker Day.

"You need to invest in a corkscrew. Wine is for drinking." -- Peter Wellington

loveladyelectric

kylemittskus wrote:Please post notes. I won't open mine for a couple years, but I want to know what I'm getting.

It was good, but I wasn't crazy about it. I loved the 2010 Halcon syrah, and this definitely had similar characteristics, but the fruit was more closed off. It had a great wet stone minerality that I get from the syrah, but the mourvedre and grenache had little to add.

All this being said, I prefer grenache and syrah single varietal wines over GSM blends 90% of the time.

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